Corset stay plate



No Model.)

J. A. RAY. {R I SOESET STAY PLATE. S No. 281,792. I Patented July 24, 1883.

INVENTOR WITNESSES:

ix m1,

ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS Ilwtn Lim mmn Walhing'un. D. L.

UNITE 'IA'IES ATENT Fries.

f CORSET STAY-PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,792, dated July 24, 1883.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JANE AMELIA RAY, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corset Stay-Plates, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to protect the ribs or bones pocketed in the fabric of corsets against breakage, and to afford a better sup port by the corset to the body of the wearer.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a partly-broken perspective View.

of a corset made in accor lance with my invention. I Fig. 2 is a section hereof on line as x of Fig. 1; and Figs. 3 and liare face views of the front and side stay-plates, respectively.

As usually made, corsets are woven with pockets in the fabric to receive ribs of whalebone, reed, or other yielding or elastic material, such pocketed ribs running in a general vertical direction in or through the corsetbody, and being disposed in groups, edge to edge, at the waist portion of the corset, where they are subjected to constantly varying strains by the movements of the body of the wearer, which tend to bend or breakthe ribs and cause the corset quickly to lose its shape and no longer afford the needed support to the wearer.

I propose by my invention to make waist stay-plates for corsets whereby these difficulties shall be obviated, and represent in the drawings a corset, A, of ordinary fabric, having interwoven pockets a, for the usual or any approved ribs or bone stays, I), placed in a general vertical position in the corset, which also has the ordinary busks and clasps for fastening them and means of lacing at C. At about the waist-line of the corset, where the rib-stays are generally grouped together edge to edge, in their separate pockets, I attach at the front the stay-plates I), which I prefer to make in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and at the sides of the corset, above the hip portion, I attach the stay-plates I], which I prefer to make with the marginal outline of Fig. 4. These plates D E are made separate from the corset,

and preferably from thin sheets of rubber, celluloid, coraline, horn, metal, or analogous elastic material suitable for the purpose, which is first cut or stamped out to proper size, and

pressed or otherwise molded into the requisite.

shape or form best calculated to prevent the breaking of the pocketed ribs b at the waistline of the corset, and afford the best support when the stay-plates are secured to the fabric over the ribs by, stitching, as at d 0, through perforations d e of the stay-plates, at the edge of the same, and, if desired, by the crossed rows of stitching f, through centrally-located apertures g of the plates. By thus making the stay-plates D E separate from the corset I provide for their ready attachment to and removal from the corset, permitting a single set of "the stay-plates to be used for two or more corsets as the latter wear out or become too much soiled for further use, and the use of the stay-plate renders the corset to which they are attached much more durable.

It may be preferred at times to cover the material of the stay-plates with white or colored cotton, linen, silk, or other fabric, t, as in Fi 2, where such cover is applied to the outsic e of the plate only; but the plates may be entirely covered over both sides, when they are made of metal. liable to rust by-perspiration and soil and destroy the fabric of the corset.

I do not limit myself to the attachment of the stay-plates D E to the corset by sewing or stitching, as above described, as they may be firmly secured in place over the pocketed ribs and at the outside or inside face of the corset by clinched tacks, rivets, eyelets, buttons, or other means at their edges and center, or at the edges only, as may be most desirable or con- Venient.

It is obvious that the stay-plates not only prevent breaking of the pocketed ribs of the corset, but serve also to preserve the shape and elasticity of the ribs and corset, the plates affording in themselves additional yielding or elastic supports to the body of the wearer, while being light, cheap, cleanly, and health.-

-ful; and the stay-plates may also be quickly and easily transferred from one corset to another by any one who can sew, and maybe applied to any form of corset in use.

forations for attachment to thcbody of the corset, as set forth.

3. The combination, with the pocketed ribs I) in the corset A, of the front and side stayplates, D E, secured to the corset fabric by stitching through perforations of the plates, substantially as shown and described.

JANE AMELIA. RAY.

XVitnesses HENRY L. GooDwIN, U. SEDGwioK. 

